Onboard Allure - Part 1
For a week, I was onboard world's largest ship as of today...Uh huh....don't think Titanic...
So when exactly did it start?
I spotted tiny blue spots next to match boxes and had to rub my sleepy eyes to ensure if I was seeing things right from the plane... Yes, one pool for every house! I don't know if I was looking at town houses or if it is the same all over Florida. But when the plane was landing at Fort Lauderdale Airport, each visible building had a pool of its own, and these buildings were not skyscrapers; just independent houses.
Being a first time cruiser and never known for travelling light, I tried to check the baggage dimensional restrictions in the cruise liner website and didn't find any. Nor did the cruise reviews told me anything about luggage. So I just assumed that the world's largest ship (Allure of the Seas from Royal Caribbean) will definitely have space enough to squeeze my huge suitcases in.
So, we had booked for the 7 day Eastern Caribbean cruise with stops or docks at Bahamas, St. Thomas and St. Maarten.
The first day of cruise we had this assembly drill and got to know that around 6000 guests (may be they should create a fancy word for this cruise travellers like we used to have in our colleges - say Allurians :-) ) and 2000+ crew members travelling in this ship.
I felt like going back to my physics lesson or call up Archimedes or Einstein to explain to me how does this ship stay afloat, considering if the average weight of a person is 50Kg(as there are quite a number of kids running around) - 50 x 8000 = 400000 kg + luggage (20 Kg per person), not to mention all the ship weight(16 floors - heavy doors, lifts, merry-go-rounds, theaters, casino, what not.....) Let me stop there. Ok, this ship is on water and moving, let us leave it at that. Will it go down a bit if I jump? With all the discos, and dance shows, and all - they would have done the stress testing with heavier people on board? Well wont they?
So when exactly did it start?
I spotted tiny blue spots next to match boxes and had to rub my sleepy eyes to ensure if I was seeing things right from the plane... Yes, one pool for every house! I don't know if I was looking at town houses or if it is the same all over Florida. But when the plane was landing at Fort Lauderdale Airport, each visible building had a pool of its own, and these buildings were not skyscrapers; just independent houses.
Being a first time cruiser and never known for travelling light, I tried to check the baggage dimensional restrictions in the cruise liner website and didn't find any. Nor did the cruise reviews told me anything about luggage. So I just assumed that the world's largest ship (Allure of the Seas from Royal Caribbean) will definitely have space enough to squeeze my huge suitcases in.
So, we had booked for the 7 day Eastern Caribbean cruise with stops or docks at Bahamas, St. Thomas and St. Maarten.
The first day of cruise we had this assembly drill and got to know that around 6000 guests (may be they should create a fancy word for this cruise travellers like we used to have in our colleges - say Allurians :-) ) and 2000+ crew members travelling in this ship.
I felt like going back to my physics lesson or call up Archimedes or Einstein to explain to me how does this ship stay afloat, considering if the average weight of a person is 50Kg(as there are quite a number of kids running around) - 50 x 8000 = 400000 kg + luggage (20 Kg per person), not to mention all the ship weight(16 floors - heavy doors, lifts, merry-go-rounds, theaters, casino, what not.....) Let me stop there. Ok, this ship is on water and moving, let us leave it at that. Will it go down a bit if I jump? With all the discos, and dance shows, and all - they would have done the stress testing with heavier people on board? Well wont they?
posted by Fathima Sagar | 10:35:00 am
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